Author: Finn MacCumhaillPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
The Youthful Exploits of Fionn
Author: Finn MacCumhaillMac-ghníomhartha Fhinn. The youthful exploits of Fionn, the text with mod. Irish version, literal tr., vocabulary, notes and map, ed. by D. Comyn. (Gaelic union publ.).
Author: Fionn (MacCumhaill.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 154
Book Description
Mac-ghníomhartha Fhinn (sliocht Saltrach Chaisil)
Author: Myths and Legends of the Celts
Author: James MacKillopPublisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0141941391
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
Myths and Legends of the Celts is a fascinating and wide-ranging introduction to the mythology of the peoples who inhabited the northwestern fringes of Europe - from Britain and the Isle of Man to Gaul and Brittany. Drawing on recent historical and archaeological research, as well as literary and oral sources, the guide looks at the gods and goddesses of Celtic myth; at the nature of Celtic religion, with its rituals of sun and moon worship; and at the druids who served society as judges, diviners and philosophers. It also examines the many Celtic deities who were linked with animals and such natural phenomena as rivers and caves, or who later became associated with local Christian saints. And it explores in detail the rich variety of Celtic myths: from early legends of King Arthur to the stories of the Welsh Mabinogi, and from tales of heroes including Cúchulainn, Fionn mac Cumhaill and the warrior queen Medb to tales of shadowy otherworlds - the homes of spirits and fairies. What emerges is a wonderfully diverse and fertile tradition of myth making that has captured the imagination of countless generations, introduced and explained here with compelling insight.
Fionn mac Cumhail
Author: James MacKillopPublisher: Syracuse University Press
ISBN: 9780815623533
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
The Gaelic hero Fionn mac Cumhaill (often known in English as Finn MacCool) has had a long life. First cited in Old Irish chronicles from the early Christian era, he became the central hero of the Fenian Cycle which flourished in the high Middle Ages. Stories about Fionn and his warriors continue to be told by storytellers in Ireland and in Gaelic Scotland to this day. This book traces the development of Fionn's persona in Irish and Scottish texts and constructs a heroic biography of him. As aspects of the hero are borrowed into English and later world literature, his personality undergoes several changes. Seen as less than admirable, he may become either a buffoon or a blackguard. Somehow these contradictions exist side by side. Among the writers in English most interested in Fionn are James Macpherson, the "translator" of The Poems of Ossian ( 17601, William Carleton, the first great fiction writer of nineteenth-century Ireland, and Fiann O'Brien, the multifaceted author of At Swim-Two-Birds. Aspects of Fiann appear as far apart as Mendelssohn's "Hebrides (or Fingal 's Cave) Overture" and a contemporary rock opera. But the most complex use of Fionn's story in modern literature is James Joyce's Finnegans Wake.
Mac-ġníoṁarṫa Ḟinn
Author: The Library of John Quinn ...
Author: John QuinnPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 736
Book Description
Ireland
Author: Seán Ua CeallaighPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ireland
Languages : en
Pages : 458
Book Description
The Gentleman's Magazine
Author: The English Catalogue of Books
Author: Sampson LowPublisher:
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Category : English imprints
Languages : en
Pages : 1194
Book Description
Volumes for 1898-1968 include a directory of publishers.